alexander Posted July 18, 2006 Report Posted July 18, 2006 Hey, its a huge conference, i'm trying to go... anyone else going to HOPE? Quote
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 18, 2006 Report Posted July 18, 2006 Is that the hacker convention? I think I saw something about it on a tv channel called G4. Quote
alexander Posted July 18, 2006 Author Report Posted July 18, 2006 its only the world's biggest security conference... Quote
alexander Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Posted July 19, 2006 Hotel pensylvania, NYC this friday, saturday, sunday.it will be 75 bucks at the entrance, plus hotel.... Quote
alexander Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Posted July 19, 2006 oh, not each day, you really should attend all 3 days... Quote
Jay-qu Posted July 19, 2006 Report Posted July 19, 2006 sounds like it would be a blast.. but I have prior engagments.. plus theres the whole "on-the-other-side-of-the-world" thing :lol: Quote
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 19, 2006 Report Posted July 19, 2006 Perhaps I'll hop on the 'ol jet this weekend and see if I can attend one of the days of the convention.It sounds like a real blast. Quote
pgrmdave Posted July 19, 2006 Report Posted July 19, 2006 Maybe, I'll see...I will be in the area, but I don't know that it's worth my money. Quote
alexander Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Posted July 19, 2006 it really is dave, there will be thousands of hackers from all over the world there, but you in all reality you should attend all three days, that is when it is really worth your money, plus the afterparties and all that fun stuff, so, for one day, i dunno... still there will be all kinds of presentations, all kinds of people spealking, like the guy who wrote kismet (who by the way worked with manufacturers of some wireless routers and made a set of custom made ones for the conference, they are insane, like if you try to attack them and they detect that (say you use some sort of flood) the access points will actually team up and kill your connection (perhaps ruin your wireless card... not sure)i actually know this guy seth, who was planning to make a war room, with a glass table, a projector shinint onto it and what is going on in the hall, network attack-wise, is all nicely and graphically displayed on the table.... that shall be sweet... Quote
Tormod Posted July 20, 2006 Report Posted July 20, 2006 Hotel pensylvania, NYC this friday, saturday, sunday.it will be 75 bucks at the entrance, plus hotel.... Cool - that's where Yvonne and I lived when we were in NYC last year... :eek2: Quote
alexander Posted July 21, 2006 Author Report Posted July 21, 2006 hey, but was the party on for 3 days straignt, no break?P.S. i found out, the hours i listed are registration hours, the conference goes on for friday through sunday straight... Quote
alexander Posted July 24, 2006 Author Report Posted July 24, 2006 Back from Hope :eek_big:what a blast, actually, if you ever want to visit NYC, you should visit it for this convention, the 50 bucks that it's worth (75 at the entrance) plus hotel and food, is well, well worth the trip. There were over one and a half thousand computer users there, and i bet that at least 700 of them were hackers in various fields that do crazy things.... The net adminst are fun too, because every time they use different schemes to protect the network from getting owned... last hope, they had a ring netork layout setup with twisted pair between servers (like 450 mhz boxes). this year, aside from having custom made wireless access points (the writer of kismet (the best wireless penntesting help tool ever made) worked with a manufacturer to actually make them) they werent using TCP IP as the communication protocol between servers, and last time they ran linux servers, this time the servers ran VMS... and it was funny that so many people actually tried to get into the boxes using root (if i am not mistaken, VMS'es admin user is "system") anyhow, it was a blast, but its time to go to bed, because i only got like 8-10 hours of sleep since thursday knight.... Quote
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